The president has signed a decree outlining roadmap for cooperation between Russia and the republics Ukraine claims as its own territory
Russian President Vladimir Putin has officially recognized Donetsk and Lugansk republics as independent states and ordered the Russian military to “secure the peace” in the two former regions of eastern Ukraine.
The Russian president officially signed the decree recognizing the independence of two breakaway regions on Monday. He has instructed the Russian Defense Ministry to send peacekeepers into the Donbass, while telling the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to establish diplomatic relations with both Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics.
The measures have taken effect immediately.
The Kremlin’s official move comes shortly after Putin’s lengthy address to the nation on Monday evening, explaining the step as a long overdue response to the brotherly Ukrainian nation becoming a “colony” of the West and falling under the rule of a “russophobic” government both hostile to Moscow and denying ethnic Russians and Russian-speakers basic human rights.
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